Support the Test activity bar view

[DonJayamanne]

From @DonJayamanne on October 2, 2017 21:40

Make use of the explorer view in VS Code to display the unit tests

• This is a poor mock up
• Plan is to display the unit test names along with the results (just as we do today using the icons)
• You'll have the ability to run tests individually form within this explorer view.

(FYI - I've justed edited the image from an older issue - https://github.com/DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode/issues/236#issuecomment-237812891)

Copied from original issue: DonJayamanne/pythonVSCode#1262

[brettcannon]

microsoft/vscode#9505 suggests that VS Code is looking into providing a generic test explorer that we would plug into. Until that issue is resolved we would rather hold off on implementing our own solution.

[rmunn]

Given microsoft/vscode#9505 (comment), it looks like there will not be a generic VS Code test explorer any time soon :-(, so perhaps this issue should be reopened.

[brettcannon]

After discussing this we've decided we don't want to pursue it as we currently don't want to clutter the left-hand sidebar. We are planning at some point to take a holistic look at testing and we will consider this when we do that.

[DonJayamanne]

@brettcannon
Reopening, as VSC have added a UI for this in the April release.

[brettcannon]

We should definitely see if we can drop our test status bar when we implement this.

[DonJayamanne]

We should definitely see if we can drop our test status bar when we implement this.

Not sure we should do that.
I for one wouldn't want to see this big ui component just to confirm that all my tests pass, the status bar is better suited for a very quick summary view.

[patrys]

On the other hand the status bar is pretty crowded for projects using more than one language. I'd like to see an option to only see the test output in the test viewlet (hoping that errors would be displayed using a badge similar to the one used by the SCM icon).

[brettcannon]

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_23#_contributions-to-the-activity-bar

[d3r3kk]

This work is underway. The work is as follows, and this issue can serve as a 'meta-issue' to track the completeness of v1 of the feature. The work list is as follows:

• Enable the Test Explorer activity Spike on unit test failures to problems window #4231
• Create Python Test TreeViewProvider & TreeViewItem Create Python Test TreeViewProvider & TreeViewItem. #4273
• Hook up existing Tests model data to the Test Explorer view Hook up existing Tests model data to the Test Explorer view #4274
• Add action buttons to top of Test Explorer Add action buttons to top of Test Explorer #4275
• Indication for when tests are actively running in Test Explorer Indication for when tests are actively running in Test Explorer #4276
• Add action buttons for Run/Debug per item in the Test Explorer view Add action buttons for Run/Debug per item in the Test View #4277
• Navigation from Test Explorer to code Navigation from Test Explorer to code #4278
• Navigation to test output from Test Explorer Navigation to test output from Test Explorer #4279